A.C. Benson Quotes
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.
I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.
Dear sirs, The cold war isn’t over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely, Patriot
If the law can be broken it will. Anyone who breaks the law is a risk. You can break the law. So you see, I have to take you in for questioning. This produce stand has an ominous future.
Especially well known around the office is my weakness for dyspareunist women. Most people would find such disparity in unity repelling, but it harmonizes perfectly with my personal tastes.
The x-ray of your skull shows a large, flobby mass floating inside. I have to consult my colleagues to be certain, but it looks like a long sausage snarled into a lump.
Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good, " and closed the door.
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.
I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.
We are successful the moment we start toward a laudable goal
Footsteps of success, are trailed by fading footprints, of failures past..
The world around us conforms to expectations we place upon it.
Life without challenge is life denied any chance for one to achieve.
Each choice strengthens the magic you bring to the world, either for good or for evil. Those choices are yours alone.~Mab Atkinson
The problem we have in the world is that most people don’t take the time to develop themselves, even though they’ll readily spend that time on many useless and irrelevant things.
The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader…
You call yourself an Atheist because you don’t believe in the supernatural. But one thing you do not realize is that your unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.
We wear many things, but that with greatest import is our expression.